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QPad MK 80 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Introduction

While mechanical boards have been around for longer than any other type of keyboard input, they’re usage petered off over the past few decades as cheaper methods of production came in to being. When you’re using your keyboard for just tapping your login into Facebook, you don’t need a £70-100 piece of kit.

However, now with gaming becoming more of a serious pastime, they’re seeing a resurgence thanks to their low latency, extemely long shelf life and their driver-less get back to basics styling. Today I’m reviewing just such a keboard, though it does feature some gamer influences.

The QPAD MK 80 is a mechanical keyboard featuring blue backlighting as well as Cherry MX Blue switches and an attachable wrist rest. Let’s see how it holds up.

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It may be of interest that QPad were / are offering the kb with any Cherry key of choice, direct from their factory in Europe. I bought the MK80 with brown keys about nine months ago. There was a delay due to material shortages, for which thay were very apologetic, and even sent me a free mat to compensate! Lovely people to deal with.